LIGO-G R LIGO R&D1 Improvement of the MGAS Filter Damping Performance Alberto Stochino University of Pisa, Italy SURF Student Mentor: Dr. Riccardo De Salvo
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D2 Seismic Noise Noise Budget It is the disturbance resulting from the displacement of the mirrors due to the ground motion seismic
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D3 The vertical and horizontal degrees of freedom are not independent mechanical complexity non uniformity of the terrestrial gravitational field Vertical Motion of the Mirrors the motion of the mirrors in the vertical direction can change the arm length of the interferometer
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D4 Vertical Attenuation ground motion ~ m expected GW signal ~ m required attenuation factor ~ vertical to horizontal couplings must not be limiting factors to the horizontal sensibility ~< 10e-3 Gravitational Coupling negligible respect to other couplings ~ 1%
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D5 Passive Mechanical Filters Massive spring
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D6 The C.O.P. Effect limitation on attenuation performance Center Of Percussion
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D7 MGAS Filter Linear Model for GAS Springs
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D8 GAS Filter Limit (Kenji Numata) Transfer Function COP limit
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D9 Inverted Pendulum Transfer Function
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D10 C.O.P. Displacement Transfer Function for the counterweighted IP
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D11 Extending the Idea to the GAS Springs M noise cop What we had before What we wanted to do blade
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D12 Prototype Design
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D13 Making it Real
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D14 Tuning of the Counterweight
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D15 Experiment Setup 1) GAS blade 2) Filter body 3) Support spring 4) Voice-coil 5) Payload 6) Rigid connector 7) Accelerometer
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D16 The Initial TF
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D17 Overcompensation Three Booms No CWs
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D18 Three Booms + 2x3 CWs Note the phase advance
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D19 Undercompensation Two Booms No CWs
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D20 Two Booms + 1 CW
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D21 Two Booms + ½ CW ?
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D22 Two Booms 1 CW CW positions comparison
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D23 Two Booms 1 CW Inner
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D24 E.M. Antispring Circuitry
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D25 E.M. Antispring Two Booms 1 CW Inner
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D26 Next Lower the noise at high frequencies Deepen the TF and Phase data analysis Find the optimal setup for the best compensation HAM-SAS
LIGO-G R LIGO R&D27 Acknowledgments Dr. Riccardo DeSalvo Virginio Sannibale Francesco Fidecaro The LIGO-SURF Program The NSF Caltech Pasadena, California, USA